Yamaha is taking their electric bike business further into new markets. A cooperation with Gogoro for Yamaha to use the firm’s battery swapping system in Taiwan is just in the making. Yamaha will add their design and marketing power. Moreover, they started selling pedelecs in the U.S. for the first time.
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Austria’s largest automobile association ÖAMTC has rolled out their own electric scooter sharing. People in Vienna can now rent 150 light electric vehicles with another 15 being available in Graz. The ‘easy way’ service works via mobile app.
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Berlin-based startup Simple Mobility is making an electric scooter at a price below 2,000 euros. Their Simple eScooter uses Bosch technology in form of a 1,500 Watt electric motor and two battery options. They last for 50 or 100 km respectively. It sells online only.
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Bike sharing service Lime is on a roll as it not only expands in Europe but also wins investment from Google’s Alphabet and Uber. The latter is spending a “sizeable” amount to integrate the startup’s electric scooters into their app.
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The bike sharing business Lime wants to expands their electric fleets to four wheels. A confidential deck for investors obtained by Axiom outlines a fleet of small rental EVs and other services to be added this year. Plus, their e-scooter sharing appears profitable.
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California’s two-wheeler sharing export Lime is coming to Paris, where they will launch a free floating fleet of electric kick-scooters on June, 22. Not only are those little last-mile LEVs easy to ride but a base price of 1 euro promises some good fun.
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Taiwan’s Gogoro launches two new all-electric scooters destined to hit their home market first. Both models feature the company’s signature battery swap so useful when in the sharing business such as with Bosch’s Coup.
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Scoot Networks, the electric scooter sharing company from San Francisco, has just set up its European HQ in Barcelona. Catalonia’s capital now also got about 1,500 electric two-wheelers to share at their disposal and Scoot plans to take shared mobility further.
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Starting in June, the on-demand mobility service Scoobi will introduce Pittsburgh’s first electric scooter feet with 100 GenZe scooters.
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The Green Tech Group founded by Chinese investor Karl Soong, who wanted to buy Rimac, and Croatian entrepreneur Mladen Ninčević is planning to establish an EV factory in Croatia. They bought the grounds already and the plant is to be set up over the next ten years.
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Europcar though its car sharing subsidiary Ubeeqo wants to increase their presence in the urban mobility market. They have taken over Belgian Scooty, a startup running a fleet of electric scooters to share in Antwerp and Brussels.
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Deliveroo rival Just Eat is offering a special deal to restaurants in its network that are willing to switch to electric transport. Just Eat has teamed up with Eskuta to offer a 45% discount on the price of its electric delivery scooters.
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The emmy e-scooter sharing is growing in Munich, where the Berlin-based startup has announced plans to expand their fleet by another 400 units. In the Bavarian capital, emmy is working with the local firm Green City Energy.
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It will be the Alpine Republic’s first fleet of electric scooters to share once Go Green got its offer going this April in Geneva. 50 electric scooters from German Kumpan electric will mark the start of the planned expansion across Switzerland and Europe.
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Bosch’s electric scooter sharing Coup is coming to Spain this summer, when Madrid will witness the launch of the Gogoro scooters. For Bosch it is the third European capital where the firm deploys the electric two-wheelers and the fleet is to grow to 3,500 LEVs this year.
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Luxembourg-based Ujet debuts its first electric scooter at the CES in Vegas and aims at design conscious city dwellers. Launch is set for early 2018 in Europe followed by the U.S. and Asia later this year. Clever integration of the battery and foldability got their price though – $8,900 to start with.
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The French battery specialist raises 55m euros to increase its production capacity tenfold. With this move, the company seeks to step up serial production of battery systems for buses, trucks, vessels and scooters in Europe as well as China.
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The Indian manufacturer intends to increase sales of its electric scooters tenfold within the next five years. For this year, Hero Electrics calculates with a sales result of 25,000 units.
WeiterlesenResearch tip: Navigant Research’s latest study on electric motorcycles and electric scooters predicts that until 2024 sales could grow from today’s 5.3 million to 6 million annually.
electriccarsreport.com, navigantresearch.com
Click tip: Another eXciting sighting of the Model X has been banned on film and is now available online. Tesla’s much discussed next model is scheduled to go on sale later this year.
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Reading tip 1: Transport Evolved’s Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield muses on Tesla’s move to open up its patents. While she surely welcomes it, she is also certain it will take years for it to bear fruits, or to change the face of the automotive industry forever.
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Reading tip 2: Electric scooters are welcomed alternative for travelers in India, only that most of them still use lead batteries. This article gives an overview of current e-bike technologies and of how the start-up Ather Energy is working on new battery packs, to push the market the next generation.
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Selected events for the coming week: 18th International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications AMAA (23-24 June; Berlin, Germany) ++ 14th Ulm ElectroChemical Talks (23-26 June; Ulm, Germany) ++ 5th Congress of the Swiss Forum for Electric Mobility (24-25 June; Lucerne, Switzerland) ++ 3rd International Conference on Energy Efficient Vehicles ICEEV (24-25 June; Dresden, Germany) ++ Hansa Green Tour 2014 (25-28 June; The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark)
You can find a complete list of upcoming industry events at electrive.com/calendar
Study tip: According to Navigant Research, power two-wheel vehicles (PTW), including e-motorcycles and e-scooters will continue to grow rather slowly, from 1.2 million vehicles in 2014 to 1.4 million in 2023 (e-motorcycles) and 4.1 million to 4.6 million (e-scooters).
navigantresearch.com via electriccarsreport.com
Video tip: Jason Fenske from ‘Engineering Explained’ looks at the electrical systems and Zero Emissions on Demand (ZEOD) motors of Nissan’s ZEOD RC which has a top speed of 300 kph.
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As many as 5,000 electric scooters to share and 700 new charging stations – mayoral candidate Anne Hidalgo has big plans for the city of Paris. At a rental price of 3 to 10 euros per hour, the ‘Scootlib’-scheme could be especially interesting for young people.
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